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Luckily, there is still one thing capable of bringing comfort to the afflicted and wiping our collective hive mind of its existential pathos, and that thing is memes. To condense this explanation as much as I can, basically people started singing 1800s-era sea shanties on TikTok. Some loved it, some prayed for it to end, but good luck ultimately getting any of those shanties out of your head, where they’re likely to have taken up permanent residence. During his halftime set, The Weeknd capably captured what it’s like to frantically search for someone/something/anything.
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Last month, a JPG file made by a digital artist known as Beeple sold for nearly $70 million. The market for ownership rights to digital art, ephemera and media known as NFTs, is exploding. All NFTs, including the “Disaster Girl” meme Ms. Roth just sold, are stamped with a unique bit of digital code that marks their authenticity, and stored on the blockchain, a distributed ledger system that underlies Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. On August 1st, 2018, the ABC News Twitter feed posted a video of North Carolina Senator Richard Burr referencing the "This Is Fine" meme while discussing Russian interference in United States politics (shown below).
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Then BuzzFeed collected all the various photos of Roth and created a chronological timeline of them starting with the extinction of the dinosaurs. Roth was officially dubbed "Disaster Girl," and the meme has proliferated across the internet ever since. Green's Gunshow comic #648, actually titled "The Pills Are Working" or "On Fire", originally posted January 9th, 2013. [1] Green's drawings have been the basis of several other memes including Staredad, Mother of God and I'm Okay With This. In this bonus episode of our meme series, we hear more about how the photo came to be, how it just might help Zoë pay off her student loans, and who really started that fire.
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Green[13] responded to the Republican National Committee's unauthorized use of his artwork by expressing his personal disdain towards the Republican party via Twitter (shown below). In doing so, the team actually has ownership of their online opus, unlike so many other viral mememakers. But in reality, the fire scene was part of a training exercise for firefighters in Mebane, N.C., near where Zoë and her father, Dave Roth, lived. Zoë Roth was internet famous before many of us knew what that was. The transcript has been edited from our original script for clarity.
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You can read some of her non-meme-related work in Fabula Argentea, Danse Macabre, Front Porch Review and more. Then on the early morning of July 26th, political cartoon website The Nib[14] responded to @GOP's tweet with a custom rendition of the original cartoon featuring the Republican elephant in place of the cartoon dog (shown below), illustrated by K.C. Green himself and commissioned by the website for exhibition at an art gallery in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia. This marks a major breakthrough for the photo, which was snapped when Roth and her family lived near a firehouse in Mebane, North Carolina.
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In the years since Dave Roth, Zoë’s father, entered it in a photo contest in 2007 and won, the image has been edited into various disasters from history, with Ms. Roth grinning impishly as a meteor wipes out the dinosaurs or the Titanic sinks in the distance. Now, after more than a decade of having her image endlessly repurposed as a vital part of meme canon, Ms. Roth has sold the original copy of her meme as a nonfungible token, or NFT, for nearly half a million dollars. If Zoe had become "Disaster Girl" a decade later, she'd be famous for real. But back in 2008, the people in memes tended to remain anonymous, unlike today when they go on talk shows, start YouTube channels, launch music careers, and make money hand over fist. We're looking at you, Danielle Bregoli, the "cash me ousside how bow dah" girl, per Celebrity Net Worth. Zoe Roth's father entered a number of photo contests with the picture of his precocious-looking daughter in front of the fire.
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Zoë Roth was four years old when her dad took a photo of her smiling mischievously in front of a burning house. That photo would later spread like wildfire as the internet meme "Disaster Girl." Twelve years later, the photo is still used all the time. Last April, it even joined the series of memes purchased as non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, by user @3FMusic. Back in January 2004, a father snapped a photo of his 4-year-old daughter in front of a burning house down the street from their home in North Carolina. Now, 16 years later, the meme that was born out of that image, called "Disaster Girl," is still going strong.
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"As long as I've been on social media, it's also been there doing its own thing," she recently told The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. As for Zoë Roth, all that internet fame has continued to puzzle her. Ms. Roth remembers watching the flames engulf the house when her father, an amateur photographer, asked her to smile. With her hair askew and a knowing look in her eyes, Ms. Roth flashed a devilish smirk as the fire roared behind her.
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“I’m a part of history,” said Zoe Roth, now 21, who first ignited the World Wide Web at 4 years old after she was photographed smirking devilishly outside a burning building. “Disaster Girl” is now a non-fungible token (NFT), a unique digital signature, which allowed it to be sold like a piece of art. Search for Disaster Girl didn't begin until October 2008, when the photos were posted to Buzzfeed. Roth has continued to post photos of Zoe on his Flickr[17] account over the years. I didn’t personally get a lot out of #TheSlap memes (too bizarre!), but watching Nyong’o try to remain calm at an extremely, um, eventful Oscars (and not totally nail it, but really, who could?) definitely hit home. It can be hard to have genuine fun with a political meme, but the one where people notice and appreciate the infectious laughter of Vice President Kamala Harris definitely qualifies.
The park outside the courthouse has been a gathering spot for protesters, journalists and gawkers throughout Trump's trial, which began with jury selection Monday. NEW YORK — A man who doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial is on trial has died, police said. We all know the feeling of trying to learn to love new music, but getting sorely disappointed.
Authorities said they were also reviewing the security protocols, including whether to restrict access to the park. The side street where Trump enters and leaves the building is off limits. Zoë Roth, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sold the NFT for 180 Ether, a form of cryptocurrency that is currently valued at more than $495,000, the Times reported. Rebecca is an editor at Know Your Meme and an expert at leaving unsolicited Rick and Morty references all over the site. In addition to managing KYM's collections, she's an executive writer at Meme Insider. She's also in grad school, earning two master's degrees in writing, for some reason.
On November 13th, 2016, a few days after the victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, indie game developer Nick Kaman[20] released a web-based 8-bit game inspired by Green's original comic for free play on his website. In the game, the player assumes the role of the beloved dog character and must use a fire extinguisher to put out the flames engulfing the house with sprays of heart. This Is Fine is a two-pane image of an anthropomorphic dog trying to assure himself that everything is fine, despite sitting in a room that is engulfed in flames. Taken from an issue of the webcomic series Gunshow illustrated by K.C.
Determined to capitalize on their internet fame, they turned “Disaster Girl” into an NFT, which is coded in such a way that Roth and her dad can reap 10% of profits whenever it is sold in the future. “A meme is a picture or video with crazy captions that people share widely because they think it’s funny and they can relate to it,” Roth explained to The Post. The meme sold for 180 Ether, a form of cryptocurrency, at a Foundation auction on April 17 to a user identified as @3FMusic.
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